By the time AGI is developed, it would be able to improve itself/build improvements, causing the runway effect that leads to superintelligence. The idea of making "personal digital assistants" is humans thinking they…
I'm hoping that eventually translates to the state.
After Brexit, I'm not sure I and many others would be comfortable allowing "greater citizen involvment" such as directly voting on bills or policies. I am politically against such a motion and am a proponent of greater…
This. I'm not sure if the other user means better experience with the services Google et al. offers or if he directly means how Google/Facebook/etc. cater ads/search results/friend suggestions to your web behavior. If…
I'm not sure I'd call the genocide of indigenous Americans "vastly more humane" than what other societies have done.
Just stop using Google if that is a concern. Personally I use DDG.
There is no such thing as complete rational people, every person goes through bouts of rationality and irrationality, some are just more often rational than others. With that said nobody is immune from irrational…
The downfall of Afghanistan and Somalia was that the government was too weak. The downfall of Yugoslavia was the death of its benevolent autocrat that held the multi-ethnic society together.
Having an autocrat in and of itself isn't inherently a terrible outcome. Having a malevolent, corrupt, misguided, or sadistic autocrat is what is terrible. A benevolent autocrat on the other hand presents a viable or…
By the time AGI is developed, it would be able to improve itself/build improvements, causing the runway effect that leads to superintelligence. The idea of making "personal digital assistants" is humans thinking they…
I'm hoping that eventually translates to the state.
After Brexit, I'm not sure I and many others would be comfortable allowing "greater citizen involvment" such as directly voting on bills or policies. I am politically against such a motion and am a proponent of greater…
This. I'm not sure if the other user means better experience with the services Google et al. offers or if he directly means how Google/Facebook/etc. cater ads/search results/friend suggestions to your web behavior. If…
I'm not sure I'd call the genocide of indigenous Americans "vastly more humane" than what other societies have done.
Just stop using Google if that is a concern. Personally I use DDG.
There is no such thing as complete rational people, every person goes through bouts of rationality and irrationality, some are just more often rational than others. With that said nobody is immune from irrational…
The downfall of Afghanistan and Somalia was that the government was too weak. The downfall of Yugoslavia was the death of its benevolent autocrat that held the multi-ethnic society together.
Having an autocrat in and of itself isn't inherently a terrible outcome. Having a malevolent, corrupt, misguided, or sadistic autocrat is what is terrible. A benevolent autocrat on the other hand presents a viable or…